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<div class="section" id="authors">
<h1>Authors</h1>
<p>ValoMC is being developed by Aleksi Leino, Aki Pulkkinen, Tuomas
Lunttila and Tanja Tarvainen at University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio,
Finland.</p>
<p>The homepage is maintained by Aleksi Leino.</p>
<p>The MATLAB interface is written by Aleksi Leino, Aki Pulkkinen, Tanja Tarvainen.</p>
<p>The C++ simulation code is written by Aki Pulkkinen, Aleksi Leino, Tanja Tarvainen.</p>
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<div class="section" id="how-to-cite">
<h1>How to cite</h1>
<p>If you use ValoMC in your work, please reference it with the following
citation:</p>
<p>A.A. Leino, A. Pulkkinen and T. Tarvainen, ValoMC: a Monte Carlo
software and MATLAB toolbox for simulating light transport in
biological tissue, OSA Continuum 2, 957-972 (2019).</p>
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<div class="section" id="how-to-contact-us">
<h1>How to contact us</h1>
<p>We appreciate feedback that help us develop the software. Comments, feature requests etc. can be sent to</p>
<img alt="contact.png" src="contact.png" />
<p>Note that you can also <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/InverseLight/ValoMC/issues">report an issue on GitHub</a>.</p>
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<div class="section" id="licensing-information">
<h1>Licensing information</h1>
<p>The ValoMC software (MATLAB and C++ source code for the software) is published under MIT-licence:</p>
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ValoMC Copyright (C) 2018 Aleksi Leino, Aki Pulkkinen and Tanja Tarvainen.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
&quot;Software&quot;), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
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OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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<p>The software uses Mersenne-Twister random number generation code by Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura (mt_rng.hpp):</p>
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Copyright (C) 1997 - 2002, Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura,
All rights reserved.

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